Introducing: Casablanca

If I get an email telling me that so and so went to the same school as one of my favourite bands, I approach with caution. Since people noticed the same school spawned The XX, Burial and Four Tet it has become more prevalent. I went to the same school as Viv Stanshall, but you don’t see me forming a band named after a cartoon do you*?

Sometimes it does work though. This is one of those times. Casablanca went to the same school as Bombay Bicycle Club and Theme Park (so presumably they’re from Crouch End as well, which is where I now call home), and if their first track, ‘Yes’, is anything to go by they could beat that South London XX school at their own game.

The sound is more Theme Park than Bombay, and we could maybe throw some Talking Heads into that mix too, especially during the intro to ‘Yes’. They’ve recently toured with The Asteroids Galaxy Tour and I’ll be keeping an eye open for a chance to see them again because my search for further tracks has so far failed. I’m very keen to hear more.

*sockformation is named after Men Behaving Badly, which is not a cartoon. Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly. also went to the same school, but he’s named after part of a computer game, not a cartoon. Point proven. Definitely.